This appears from what I found a sort of reoccuring problem which I didn't have until a few weeks ago.
While running newsbin with 40 connections I am unable to receive mail in Outlook.
But after a closer look it seems that even newsbin is getting limited to using about 20 of the 40 allowed (in the profile) connections.
I tried making a change in the registry to increase the max number, but that doesn't seem to have worked.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Avast Software\Avast\properties\EmailShield
DWORD MaxConnections 200
Did I make a wrong change?
I wouldn't mind having no limit at all, but I can't find where to make the needed changes to make Avast stop imposing the current default connectionlimit.
Running Avast Free 24.5.6116